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Inside Vintrepid’s 2026 France Wine Sourcing Trip: Champagne, Burgundy & Loire Valley

Inside Vintrepid’s 2026 France Wine Sourcing Trip: Champagne, Burgundy & Loire Valley

In just over a week, Chris will be heading back to France for Vintrepid’s latest wine sourcing trip — travelling through Champagne, Burgundy and the Loire Valley to visit producers, taste new vintages and hopefully uncover a few exceptional new...

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Are We the Best Wine Subscription in Australia?

Are We the Best Wine Subscription in Australia?

There are a lot of wine subscriptions in Australia these days. Big brands. Big warehouses. Big marketing budgets. Endless discounts and “mystery deals”. That’s not us. Vintrepid is a small family wine business built around something much simpler: finding genuinely...

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Why This Beaujolais Wine Means So Much to Us

Why This Beaujolais Wine Means So Much to Us

Tonight this wine feels very front of mind after taking a bottle of Yohan Lardy 1903 to friends for dinner.  Not just my favourite because it’s delicious, but because Yohan was really the winemaker who started Vintrepid for us. Chris...

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Why Promoting Vintrepid Feels Like My Second Unpaid Job

Why Promoting Vintrepid Feels Like My Second Unpaid Job

Working in corporate while helping Chris build Vintrepid has shown me two things: finding good gifts for colleagues and clients is surprisingly hard, and trying to explain a small wine business to people with no marketing budget is really hard;

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Why a Year of French Wine Is the Perfect 40th Birthday Gift

Why a Year of French Wine Is the Perfect 40th Birthday Gift

As someone about to turn 40 myself — married to a wine importer and raising two young boys — you’d probably assume I drink wine all the time. Truthfully? I can’t handle hangovers anymore. Which is exactly why I’ve become...

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How We Source Wine in France | Vintrepid Wine Buying Trips

How We Source Wine in France | Vintrepid Wine Buying Trips

By Chris At Vintrepid, we don’t buy from catalogues — we go straight to the source. That means travelling through regions like Loire Valley, Champagne, and Burgundy, meeting producers, and tasting wines where they’re actually made — often straight from...

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Why We Focus on the Wine Club

Why We Focus on the Wine Club

When we started Vintrepid, we wanted to bridge the gap between how restaurants buy wine and how people drink it at home. Our wine club is built around that idea — importer-direct French wines, chosen for their story and place, not their label. Real wine, made by real families.

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Corks vs. Screw Caps: Why the French Still Choose Tradition

Corks vs. Screw Caps: Why the French Still Choose Tradition

If you’ve ever wondered why most French wines still come sealed with a cork, even as the rest of the world turns to screw caps, the answer is part science, part story. The Practical Side Screw caps were designed to...

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